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The Muslims and Italians controlled trade through Europe to get to Asia. Nobody was allowed into that region, so traders looked for new routes to get to Asia.
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Prince Henry the navigator was a patron who started to discover parts of Africa.He wanted to spread out Christianity to the Africans.
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Zheng He was an important figure in the trading business for China's Ming Dynasty. He lead huge ships all over. After he died, China stopped their trading business and they will soon collapse.
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Christopher was also looking for a new route to Asia. He was the one of the few people who knew the Earth was round. So, not knowing that there was a huge landmass between Asia and Europe, he discovered the Americas, He thought he was in Asia for a while.
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When Columbus gave out news, the Dutch and the Portuguese had the Christian Pope create a line for each amount of land that the countries get. That was known as the Line of Demarcation.
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He created a new route to get to Asia. He took his ships down Africa and past its peak. He created a new route to Asia for Europeans to trade to Southeast Asia.
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Him and his crew decided to go to the Island of Goa. He made his way into peace, but later, it ended in war. Alburquerque later gained Goa for Portugal.
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Him and his crew hit South America after a long journey. His journey was supposed to be 3 weeks. Instead, it took months and he later died.
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Spain, entering the Philippines, decided to take it over. It ended in catastrophe for the Philipinos and the news caused Southeast Asia to watch out for the Europeans.
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After months of traveling, only about one tenth of his crew survived after circling around the whole globe. They were the first to do it out of everyone at that time.
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After being blown off course, the Portuguese reached Japan. The Japanese became welcome to the Europeans and they even learned how to shoot guns.
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After a long trip from India and back, the Dutch were celebrated by what was known as the Happy Return.
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It was a company that was founded in 1602 that allowed activities to the South Asians.
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Because the Portuguese and the Spanish were taking over some countries, they became isolated to any European traders. They used to be open to the Europeans until the Japanese Shoguns became suspicious about the Europeans after what happened to the Philippines.
